The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-27

can't get any other place Oh, what q con-
trast we see between such men and those
Christian merchants of Brooklyn and New
York who to-day are sympathetic with their
clerks-when they pay the salary, acting in
this way: This salary that ! give you Is
not all my interest In you You are an i'm
mortal man; You are an immortal woman;
am interested in your present and your
everlasting welfare; / want you 10 under
stand that, if / am little higher up in this
store, am beside you in Christian sympa-
thy Go back forty years 10 Arthur Tap.
PENS store in New York-a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty. Every
morning he brought all the clerks and the
accountants and the weighers into room
for devotion They sang. They prayed.
They exhorted On Monday morning the
clerks were asked where they had attended
church the previous day, and what the ser
mons were about. 1t must have sound
ed strangely that voice of praise along
the streets where the devotees of MammOn
were counting their golden beads Yon say,
Arthur Happen failed. Yes he was I'm
fortunate, ike a great many good men, but
understand he met all his obligations before
he left this world, and l know that he died in
the peace of the Gospel, and that he Is before
the throne of God to-day-forever blessed.
If that be falling, l wish that you might all
fail There are great many young men IN
this city-yea, in this housewife want
word of uragement-Christian encour-
agement One smile of good cheer would
be worth more TO them tomorrow morn
ing in their places of business than a
present Of $4,000 ten years hence. oh, I
remember the apprehension and tremor of en-
tering a profession. | remember very well
the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical
court with the tip ends of the long fingers of
the left hand: and remember the other man
who took my hand in both of his and said:
"God bless you, my brother; you have en-
tered a glorious profession; be faithful to
God and he viii see you through" Why, |
feel this minute the thrill OF that hand
shaking, though the man who gave me the
Christian grip has been in heaven twenty-five
years. There are old men to-day who can look
back TO forty years ago, when some one said
kind word to them. Now, old men, pay back
what you got then. 1t is a great art for old
men to be able to encourage the young. There
are many young people in our cities who have
come from inland counties of our own state
from the granite hills of the north, from the
| savannas of the south, from the prairies of
| the west. They are here to get their fortune.
They are in boarding houses, where everybody
seems to be thinking of himself They want
companionship and they want Christian en-
enlargement. Give it to them. My word is
to all clerks in this house: Be mightier than
your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used
to think when he slew an enemy all the
strength of that enemy came into his own
right arm. And l have to tell you that every
| misfortune you conquer is SO much added to
| your moral power With omnipotence for a
| lever, and the throne of God for a fulcrum,
you can move earth and heaven. While there
| are other young men putting the cup of sin to
! their lips, stoop down and drink out of the
| fountains of God, and you will rise up strong
to thresh the mountains The ancients used
to think that pearls were fallen raindrops,
| which, touching the surface of the sea, hard
/ ened into gems, then dropped to the bottom.
l have to tell you to-day that storms of tria
! have showered imperishable pearl into many
a young mans lap. Oh, young man! while
you have goods to sell, remember you have a
soul to save. In a hospital Christian cap
tain, wounded a few days before, got delirious
and i'll the midnight hour he sprang out on
the floor of the hospital thinking he was in
the battle crying: Come on, boys! For
ward! Charger All, he was only battling
| the specters of his own brain. But it is nc
imaginary conflict into which | call you
young man, to-day There are 10000 spirit
ual foes that would capture you. IL
the name of God, up and at them
| After the last store has been closed
after the last bank has gone down, after the
shuttle of the quick feet on the custom houst
steps has stopped, after the long line of mer
chantmen on the sea have taken sail of flame
after Brooklyn and New York and Londor
| and Vienna have gone down into the grave
where Thebes and Babylon and Tyre lay
buried, after the great fire bells of the Judg
ment day have tolled at the burning of
world-on that day all the affairs of banking
houses and stores will come up for inspection
Oh, what am opening of account books! Sid,
by side, the clerks and the men who employed
them-the people who owned thread anC
needle stores on the same footing with th'
Stewards and the Delanos and the Abbott
and the Barlngs. Every invoice made out
all the labels OF goods, all certificates o
stock, all lists of prices, all private marks O
the firm now explained so everybody can un
derstand them. All the maps of cities tina
We're never built, but in which lots were sold
All bargains. All gougings All snap judg
ments. All false entries All adulteratioi
of liquors with cOpperas and strych
nine. All mixing of teas and sugar
and coffees and syrups with cheaper
material. All embezzlement of trUs
funds. All swindles in coal and iron anC
oil and silver and stocks. All Swartout
and Huntingtons and Ketchums. On tina
day, when the cities of this world are smoking
in the last conhagration, the trial win go on
and down in an avalanche of destruction vii
go those who wronged man or woman, in
suited God and defied the Judgment. Oh
that will be a great day for You, homes
| No .Ix
firing late no walking around with wear,
limbs; but mansion III which to live, and
realm of love and light and joy over whicl
to hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him VI
from glory to glory, and from song to song
and from throne to throne; for while other
go down into the sea, with their gold like
mill stone hanging to their necks, this on
shall come up the. heights of amethyst an,
alabaster, holding in his right hand the pear
of great price in a sparkling, glittering
flaming casket